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      The Apostle Paul wrote of how we should minister the Word of God to ourselves and to others: "Study to shew thyself approved unto God, a workman that needeth not to be ashamed, rightly dividing ( orthotomeo - rightly divide, to cut straight, to teach the truth directly and correctly, to make a straight cut, to proceed on straight paths) the word of truth." (2 Tim. 2:15).       Cutting the Word straight, or orthotomeo , yields fruit in our own lives and in others' lives, and ties in directly to who we have become in Christ: "Blessed be the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, who hath blessed us with all spiritual blessings in heavenly places in Christ: According as he hath chosen us in him before the foundation of the world , that we should be holy and without blame before him in love: having predestinated us unto the adoption of children by Jesus Christ to himself, according to the good pleasure of his will, to the praise of the glory of hi...

       Frontal View - The Shroud of Turin      Today is Palm Sunday, and it is also Passover. Jesus observed the Passover Feast and celebrated it with His disciples just before His arrest and crucifixion. The Gospel of John relates that Jerusalem was full of people who had come to the feast when they heard that Jesus was coming to Jerusalem. They took branches from palm trees and when to meet Him as He entered the city. The crowd cried out, "Hosanna: Blessed is the King of Israel that cometh in the name of the Lord." In fulfilment of the scriptures, Jesus rode into Jerusalem on the colt of an ass. It wasn't until later that His disciples realized that the things that were done to Jesus, down to the most minute detail, had been prophesied: "...then remembered they that these things were written of him, and that they had done these things unto him." (Jn. 12:12-16). The prophet Zechariah had written long before: "Rejoice greatly, O daughter of Zion; shout...